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Offline Bacchulum

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Steam Expert Required
« on: July 24, 2014, 06:56:48 PM »
Can I change the location of my Assetto Corsa folder?
I need to move it onto a different drive with more space but I don't want to screw it up, and Steam and I have never got along.

I thought I'd open a thread for Steam questions, as opposed to AC, for noobs like me. :-[

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Re: Steam Expert Required
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2014, 07:17:45 PM »
I know you can move your entire steam library to another location. Don't ask me how, I just know its possible.
“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”

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Re: Steam Expert Required
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2014, 07:22:52 PM »
I looked into this a little while ago as I have a relatively small SSD and wanted move some stuff to my HDD.  Essentially there was no easy way, as even if you move the individual game over there is still a heap of other files and things associated with steam that can't be moved.

A shame.  I'd pay good money for something that could do this at the click of a button.

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Re: Steam Expert Required
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2014, 07:31:42 PM »
Nah, I've done it. You can drag and drop the files and then point Steam at the new location, or something like that. I just can't remember the details.
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Re: Steam Expert Required
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2014, 07:50:01 PM »
yeah just drag and drop. Then verify. You can change you default steam games folder. In Steam under games/settings/downloads then under Content libraries you can 'add library folder'

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Re: Steam Expert Required
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2014, 08:37:55 PM »
I moved my AC game from a hdd to my ssd lol dunno if it did anything for loading times though, still takes forever.

All the settings are stored under "Documents/Assetto Corsa" so make sure to back that up. Copy your "assettocorsa" folder to where you want it then follow Dick's instructions, the way I did it was bit different and I think Dick's way is better.

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Re: Steam Expert Required
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2014, 08:56:07 AM »
You can either move the folder and point steam to it (it's now possible)
or leave steam alone, and point to the AC folder via a junction (Junction Link Magic helps if you need a tool - command line can be a bit daunting)

I have most of my stuff on HDD, but those I need to load quick, I junction-link to my SSD - like AC :)

The advantage of the 2nd solution is that even from the file system you can follow the link from the steamapps folder, no need to scramble to find where the hell that game was installed...

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Re: Steam Expert Required
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2014, 02:36:14 PM »
Moving across now, thanks all. ;)
Turns out, where AC was is a secondary steam folder, I'm now moving it to the main one.
It's where pCars and AC Editor are so it should be straight forward.

I'll report if loading times are slower, which I expect, but at least now I should have room to get my emails from the last couple of days. :-[

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Offline Dick Forrest

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Re: Steam Expert Required
« Reply #8 on: July 25, 2014, 03:31:58 PM »
Moving across now, thanks all. ;)
Turns out, where AC was is a secondary steam folder, I'm now moving it to the main one.
It's where pCars and AC Editor are so it should be straight forward.

I'll report if loading times are slower, which I expect, but at least now I should have room to get my emails from the last couple of days. :-[

wow, you use your ISP's email??? that's pretty retro Mr bacchulum.

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Re: Steam Expert Required
« Reply #9 on: July 25, 2014, 03:41:58 PM »
wow, you use your ISP's email??? that's pretty retro Mr bacchulum.

OK, first of all he never said that, pop3 is available with all major email providers.
2nd how is it better to trust google, microsoft or any other "big brother" to handle your emails?
Unless you have your own server to handle your own stuff, you're actually potentially going for the worse for the questionable advantage of a permanent email addy (questionable, eg because spam will mount as time goes)

But anyway, let's get back on topic... :)

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Re: Steam Expert Required
« Reply #10 on: July 25, 2014, 03:51:40 PM »
yeah just drag and drop. Then verify. You can change you default steam games folder. In Steam under games/settings/downloads then under Content libraries you can 'add library folder'
If, by verify, you mean:
right-click on game name in Library
click on properties
click 'verify integrity of game cache...'
It says 'all files successfully validated'

When I try to play I get 'Failed to start game (missing executable)

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In Steam under games/settings/downloads
I don't have 'settings' under 'Games' (right at the top) so this doesn't help.
 :( :( :( :( :(

F@#k I hate Steam......
« Last Edit: July 25, 2014, 03:54:51 PM by Bacchulum »

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Re: Steam Expert Required
« Reply #11 on: July 25, 2014, 04:00:24 PM »
yeah just drag and drop. Then verify. You can change you default steam games folder. In Steam under games/settings/downloads then under Content libraries you can 'add library folder'
If, by verify, you mean:
right-click on game name in Library
click on properties
click 'verify integrity of game cache...'
It says 'all files successfully validated'

When I try to play I get 'Failed to start game (missing executable)

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In Steam under games/settings/downloads
I don't have 'settings' under 'Games' (right at the top) so this doesn't help.
 :( :( :( :( :(

F@#k I hate Steam......


rebooted steam?

try this Bacchulum
http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/828939163943652381/
« Last Edit: July 25, 2014, 04:03:57 PM by Dick Forrest »

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Re: Steam Expert Required
« Reply #12 on: July 25, 2014, 04:27:53 PM »
No luck.

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Re: Steam Expert Required
« Reply #13 on: July 25, 2014, 04:38:08 PM »
Sorted.
I had only moved the AC folder, I moved the whole steamapps folder across and it works.
Thanks for the help Dick. 8)

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Re: Steam Expert Required
« Reply #14 on: July 25, 2014, 06:16:49 PM »
Another thing i do to save room on my tiny SSD is move my user documents over to a HDD and move your page file to the HDD as well.
Nvidia, for example, stores a ton of files in C:\NVIDIA whenever you install a new driver, and that can eat up space really quickly and that's a folder you can definitely delete.
My Windows is taking up 30 gig, completely up to date.

 

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